Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
CLARENCE DARROWProbably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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